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Presentations

Presentations are available on the following topics:

• Self-Care for the Caregiver

  Survival 101: How to cope when others need more than you can give

• Exploring Similarities and Differences with the Myers-Briggs Personality Test
  
• Prayer and Meditation: Our Vital Connection to Peace and Joy
  
• Learning to Know God Better, and More Deeply Experiencing His Love
  
• Renewing the Mind: How to Develop Healthier Ways of Thinking

For more information, or to schedule a presentation, please phone (856) 993-2814. Lesson formats include:

• Workshop or seminar
  
• Adult Sunday School lesson
  
• Retreat
  
• Bible study, koinonia, or fellowship group
  
• Women’s circle or friendship group

Presentations include handouts, lecture, slides, question and answer time, group discussion, and opportunities for skill development. Publicity materials include press releases, copy for church bulletin inserts, and copy for flyers.

Self-Care for the Caregiver

Pastors, doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, and agency staff care for others as part of their jobs. Family members may also spend years caring for children, teens, a partner, or aging parents. This seminar explores ways to promote resilience in the caregiver through enhanced caring for the self. Topics include:

Sustaining Physical Energy

• Acknowledging Limitations
• Setting Priorities
• Taking a Break
• Practicing Compassion for the Self as well as the Other
• Resources include:

• Sleep
• Nutrition
• Movement
• Light

Maintaining Social Support

• Acknowledging Needs
• Asking for Help
• Understanding Others’ Abilities and Limitations
• Exploring Options
• Resources include:

• Friends
• Family
• Partner
• Church or synagogue
• Small groups

Increasing Emotional and Psychological Resilience

• Creating Safe Space
• Assessing Strengths
• Assessing Losses and Stressors
• Naming Feelings
• Setting Boundaries
• Resources include:

• Ability to talk about feelings
• Ability to weigh options
• Ability to initiate change
• Ability to adapt
• Ability to relax

Finding New Strength: Resting in the Spirit

• Realistic Expectations
• Problems as a Catalyst for Change
• Sharing Responsibility
• Challenging Negative Beliefs
• Resources include:

• Meditation
• Prayer
• Music
• Faith

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Exploring Similarities and Differences with the Myers-Briggs Personality Test

This two-hour workshop offers an opportunity to improve relationships with those close to you. Invite a spouse, coworkers, family members, or a friend or two. Learn where your needs are similar and where they are different. Increase your understanding of what motivates you and them during decisionmaking. Discover how you may process the things of life differently than they do. As we better understand ourselves and others, we are able to be more constructive in relationships.

Your church or agency may sponsor a workshop on the Myers-Briggs for staff, a congregation, or the community. This test is popular with employers, schools, counselors, and individuals to help identify personality types. The workshop includes:

• Test materials and handouts
• Time for attendees to complete the test during the workshop
• Feedback on scores and personality type
• Group discussion
• Exploration of the impact of similarities and differences for families and work groups

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Prayer and Meditation: Our Vital Connection to Peace and Joy

What might happen if we asked God, in each day, to do more than we as human beings can imagine? What might happen if we asked Him for all the blessings that He wants to give in that day?

Sometimes we may hesitate because we have asked Him for things in the past that we have not yet received. But God answers on His timetable, and sometimes His “No” may be more loving than a “Yes.”

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Learning to Know God Better, and More Deeply Experiencing His Love

In the United States, many of us have heard from childhood that “Jesus loves me.” But how many of us experience the loving Presence of God from day to day? “You will seek Me and find me,” God promises, “when you seek me with all your heart.” How may we see Him more clearly? How may we see ourselves more accurately? Examine the negative beliefs that block us from wanting to see ourselves - and Him – more accurately.

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Renewing the Mind: How to Develop Healthier Ways of Thinking

St. Paul begs us to be “transformed” by the “renewing” of our minds, so that we may experience the goodness of what God has for each of us. Unfortunately, we may occasionally be held back by a spirit of heaviness or fear that exploits negative beliefs about ourselves, others, and even God. As we learn to identify the negative beliefs, we may open the way for the Holy Spirit to more effectively replace them with the truth of Scripture, and experience more fully who we truly are in Jesus.

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